# lema
## English
### Etymology

First coined 1789, from Ancient Greek λήμη (lḗmē, “substance that gathers in the corner of the eye; rheum”).

### Noun

lema (uncountable)
* (physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.

#### Synonyms

* sebum palpebrale

### Anagrams

* Elma, mela, mela-, amel, -meal, meal, alme, male-, Male, male, leam, lame, lamé, Leam, Elam, Malé

## Catalan
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lēmma, from Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈle.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈle.ma]

### Noun

lema m (plural lemes)
* (heraldry) motto
* (linguistics) lemma
* (mathematics) lemma

#### Derived terms

* lemari
* lematitzar

### Further reading

* “lema” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Javanese
### Romanization

lema
* Romanization of ꦊꦩ

## Latin
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λήμη (lḗmē).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈleː.ma/, [ˈɫ̪eːmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈle.ma/, [ˈlɛːmä]

### Noun

lēma f (genitive lēmae); first declension
* rheum that collects in the corner of the eyes

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* grāmia

### References

* “lema”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* lema in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Madurese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lima, from Proto-Austronesian *lima.

### Numeral

lema
* five

## Maltese

* Root
* l-m-j
* 1 term

### Alternative forms

* lema’

### Etymology

From Arabic لَمَعَ (lamaʕa). The original inflection with a final għ is now less common (see above). Otherwise the root was reanalysed as ending in a semivowel. For this case, moreover, there exist two conjugations (one with -a- in all forms and one of the type of beda).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛ.ma/

### Verb

lema (imperfect jilma)
* to glitter, glint, glimmer
** 1949, Anton Buttigieg, “Fuq Qabar Oħti”, in Fanali bil-Lejl:U waqt li nħares fuq ta’ qalbi x-xitla tat-tifkiriet tinbet tifkira ġdida, b’warda ta’ swied il-qalb fejn tilma demgħa minn ħbub għajnejja.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Conjugation
## Northern Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀ma.

### Verb

lema
* to farm, to cultivate
* to plough

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Latin lemma, from Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma). Compare Spanish lema.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlẽ.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈlẽ.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈle.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈle.mɐ/
* Rhymes: -emɐ
* Hyphenation: le‧ma

### Noun

lema m (plural lemas)
* motto; slogan
* (linguistics) lemma
* (mathematics) lemma

#### Related terms

* dilema
* lemático
* lematização
* lematizar
* trilema

### Further reading

* “lema”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lěːma/
* Hyphenation: le‧ma

### Noun

léma f (Cyrillic spelling ле́ма)
* lemma

#### Declension
## Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀ma.

### Verb

lema
* to farm, to cultivate
* to plough

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lemma, from Ancient Greek λῆμμα (lêmma).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlema/ [ˈle.ma]
* Rhymes: -ema
* Syllabification: le‧ma

### Noun

lema m (plural lemas)
* motto
* slogan (especially a political one)
    Synonym: eslogan
* theme, subject
* headword, term, title
* lemma
* (heraldry) motto

### Further reading

* “lema”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Teanu
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *lalom, from earlier *ralom, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daləm, from Proto-Austronesian *daləm.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lema/

### Noun

lema
* inside

### References

* François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry lema.
* François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry lema.
* Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

## Tswana
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-dɪ̀ma.

### Verb

lema
* to farm, to cultivate
* to plough

## Venda
### Verb

lema
* to spoil